Product Description: One of Japan's foremost twentieth-century photographers, Shomei Tomatsu has created a defining portrait of postwar Japan. Beginning with his meditation on the devastation caused by the atomic bombs in "11:02 Nagasaki," Tomatsu focused on the tensions between traditional Japanese culture and the nation's growing Westernization, most notably in his seminal book "Nihon...read more

Product Description: This updated and significantly revised edition explores the dynamics of power relationships and international negotiations and the use of terror between the United States and Western countries and the nations of the Middle East in the post-9/11 era...read more

The linguist and political activist discusses the effects of United States policies in the Middle East and the Third World on American society and American responses to terrorism, and recommends policy changes.

Offers 120 letters sent to General Douglas MacArthur from Japanese citizens from 1945-1952 and commentary by the author. (view table of contents)

An eloquent accompaniment to an upcoming PBS documentary offers an inclusive musical portrait of the Mississippi River, showing its effect on the culture of America and including interviews with over more than five hundred musicians whose music flows with the river. TV tie-in. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Examines two Japanese artists' series of paintings which portray the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima